re: Medical disinformation and crackpot advice is out of control

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Is cholesterol the heart demon it's been made out to be? It's just really hard to know which way is up these days.

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It's not. Look at how they treat high blood pressure. It used to be they only got concerned around 200 systolic. Now there are 3-4 categories below it. 180 is now "hypertensive crisis, seek emergency care."

cannabis…perfect example.
I have lower back disc damage and am prone to debilitating pain. 10mg THC 3x a day for 3- 5 days and I can self medicate my way thru it. No side effects

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Medical disinformation and crackpot advice is out of control

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It's conventional wisdom in respected corridors that saturated fat and meat are bad for you as well as the sun. That's a tough hole to climb out of.

Sounds like you have really stupid friends in your social circle.

Autism crackpots are nuts

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People survived 1,000’s of years without modern medicine. They ate better, worked physical and weren’t poisoned with our modern food and medicine. Go figure.

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lol The life expectancy even 100 years ago for an American male was 58. 1,000 years ago, it was like 35.

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Modern medicine has all but eliminated infant mortality in the west, but people lived a pretty long time back then too

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Not sure why this obviously true statement was downvoted. Human lifespan has always been about the same. Life expectancy is higher now due to the significant mitigation (sometimes close to zero) of the major impediments to long life over the millennia: infant mortality, war, infection and trauma medicine.

I actually wouldn't be surprised if a 90 year old from 5000 years ago lived a much healthier final 10 years than a 90 year old today.

The thing that pisses me off the most about the COVID stuff is how guidance provided weeks after the pandemic began is now used as proof that the CDC didn't know wtf they were doing.


I mean, do people think these diseases come with user guides? You've suddenly got people getting very sick from a novel virus and you're in charge of trying to protect the public. You know it's a contagious disease. Should they really be criticized for encouraging social distancing, masks, and hand washing to control the spread? Did it make sense to shut down schools before they knew what they were dealing with?

There was a lot wrong with the way the CDC managed COVID once certain facts began to come out. Schools should not have remained closed as it was obvious young folks weren't experiencing bad symptoms. Shutting down restaurants, gyms, etc., was unnecessary. The vaccine shouldn't have been advertised as some miracle vax, and it sure as shite shouldn't have been made mandatory in so many aspects of life.

I don't know, I guess I'm of the opinion that being over-cautious is better than not being at all cautious when dealing with a novel virus which is resulting in American deaths. I certainly don't believe their action/inaction should have become a fricking political argument, nor should it have led to any dismissal of trust in our scientific institutions.

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